Railway and vehicular device for purposes of amusement.



P. MARSHALL, O. C. METGALFE & W. KNOWLES. RAILWAY AND VEHICULAR DEVICE FOR PURPOSES 0F AMUSEMENT.

APPLIOATION FILED MAH.14,190B.

Patented Jan. 26. 1909 4 SHEETS-SHEET 14 C. METUALPE & WA KNOWLES.

RAILWAY AND VEHICULAR DEVK P. MARSHALL, G.

5 FOR PURPOSES OP AMUSEMENT APPLICATION liLil" MAR 14. 190% Patented J an. 26. 1909 4 SHEETS SHUI I P. MARSHALL, O. C. METCALFE & W. KNOWLES.

RAILWAY AND VEHIOULAR DEVICE FOR PURPOSES 0F AMUSEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MARA14.1E108.

4 SHBETSSHEET 3.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909' P. MARSHALL, 0. 0. METC RAILWAY AND VEHIGULAR DEVICE APPLICATION FILED MAR 14.1908 H 91 0,702 Patented Jan. 2 ,,1909.

4 BHEBTSISHEET 4.

ALPE & W. KNOWLES.

FOR. PURPOSES OF AMUSEMENT.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQLE.

PERC'Y'MAKSHALIJ, OF'BLIKO'KPUOL', CHARLES'CARYWHIGHT METCALFE, OF SALE, AND WALTER KNOWLES; GF' BULTON, ENGLAND.

RAILWAY AND VEHIOU'LAEB'DEVICEEDB PURPOSES OF AMUSEMENT.

Specification of Letters Eaterzt.

Iatented Jan. 28, 1809.

Application filed March 14, N08. Serial No. 121,151.

CHARLES CARTWRIGHT METCALFE, and War:

TEE KNOWLES, subjects of the King ofGreat Britain, and residing, respectively, at 4 Balmoral road, South. Shore, Blackpool, in the county of Lancaster, England; 5 Urban road, Sale, in the county of Cheshire, England, and 17 Queensgate, Bolton, inthe county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railwa and Vehicular Devices for Purposes of musement, of which the following descri accompanying s fication.

Our invention relates to an arrangement of a system of rails or tracks together with vehicles which may take an equestrian form or that of velocipedes, motor cars or the like, the movements oi which may be controlled by the user, and our said invention consists in so arranging the means to be oFeratcd b Y the user for controlling the rate o speed 0 said vehicles through regulating or governing the motor driving same, that when a predetermined position of the rogu lator is reached or exceeded at which time the speed of said vehicles will be greatest, the motions of such vehicles may either be retarded or almost or entirely arrested.

In the accompanying sheets of drawings, which are illustrative of our said invention 2 Figure l is a diagram illustrating in plan a railway upon which are shown in three motor cars. Fig, 2 is side eevation showing one of the cars with the switch operating device in position thereon, sueh car being electrically driven. Fig. 3 is part sectional side elevation, drawn to an on" largzed scale as compared with F ig. 2, of said switch and its operating parts. Fig. 4 part sectional elevation thereof as seen at right angles to Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a drawing in. detail of parts hereinafter referred to. Fig b is a diagram showin the switch and its connections. Eig. 7 is side elevation of a vehicle of equestrian form, the framework of which is shown in full lines and the 0 nostriau art indicated h dotted lines. Big, 8 is sectional end elevation of parts illustrated hv Fi flj'. Fist, 9 is a dia ram shown (P the h i h eets of drawings, is a speci appliuutlon of our improved speed rogulut iugz devices anism.

to another form of motor met-h tion, in connection with the ositmn f Similar letters and figures of reierenro indicate like parts throughout the several views.

in carrying our invention into eilect, we arrange a system or systems or sets of rails or tracks a parallel with each other as shown by Fig. l and those rails may be arranged to follow straight, curved or other desired courses as may be found aili'entagmius. Upon those rails 11 we mount our vehicles I) ofthe (-liaractcr desired so that vat-l1 vehicle may carry its respective motor whether same is to be actuated electrically or by steam, or by internal romliustiou or explosive engines, each one of these vehicles being arranged to have appropriate devices whereby the user can gradually move or operate mechanism so as to increase the speed thereof until a predetermined limit is reached when. said mechanism will at this delicate point so act independently of the d ameter as to irurio or loss gradually diminish the speed or even entirely stop oil all the energy exerted by the motor, thus inquiring shill or good fortune on the nail oi the use: not to unduly err-s5 forwan his vehicle otherwise is i ufogrrss will ho retardlui instead of in tolerated hen olrriih'al energy is om il ysii. as is the Peso iu the arran gouiouts illmitrat-erl l ios. E to s of the ax-i-ompzuiyius drmvin th rails may ho arranged to condu t i rout in tin! motor (5 on the driving; liail siill il or rubles (5" {see him in whim oni-nin Po rout talwu ilioroi'i'om hf; can form: oi collectors.

s l will :11 an i iru'opriaio velutlo 51 u'ciu'raiugiswitrh ill 1 *he Contact pieces r and i;

:h mounted to travel th. r and g the latter living: zivo mounted :al 5, up n the l'ornu' r which so hils loosely on this shall upon whirl: 4:? the l" 1 A-lW-"l i F111 ll upon the shril fl'urryiup; the (stal pirac illl'stllgwl to lay imhl of til ame e" llXttl to th lover s" that as the hand heel r is rotated in the ill" reotion indi ated by the arrow L the catchy will wiry the lever as coil as the lewr ,1 its along with in. the same direction so as to sow naively throw out of tirrfiii the resistance mils 5. hits! i'eurhiug; the lust contact grie e e on moving Further (,J lilo user 1r y imagine to increase his rate of speed sin e e5; no

, its spring 31" v'ili. c

these parts are hid from his view by the (over 3 the front and inclined end. f of the catch f comes into contact with the fixed projection I: so as to be thereby deflected to release its hold of the leverc thus the retracting spring e" (or a dashpot) is permitted to return said lover c to its position shown by Fig. 6. On thus returning, the lovers 9 and g are arrested in said position by the stoppicce it which is the armature of an electrorninrnct or other appropriate device as shown by Fig. 5 and in this position the current is so reduced as to be able oniy to carry the vehicle at a comparatively slow rate of speed, to increase which the user has to return his hand wheel 2 to again. enable the catchf' to lay-h .xld-of and carry with it the lovers and g said user a tin coimnenccs to move his hand whi-ci in the dirccti-m ol the arrow 2. when l" sorreni is entirely shut oil 1 hen the armature d nds out of the path of the lever g and a l .i -s s some and the lever c" to be returned bv the spring e so that the said lever e rc tsagao at its stop'pin o (in the current bcnr. d on. the user on moving the handle if" sow. described brings the levers e and g forwa d until. the inclined end of the lever g Comes into contact with the armature h which such current will have raised into its path. However by the continued movement of the hand wheel 5 said lever g is made to su'ivri u on its pivot o" and against the recoil oi PM P rin 5;" until its deflection enables ir to p .gh armature h on which it into its normal p0- To further embar" su ion shown by i g. 5. rass the use when the arm in is .reh-ascd by the ;.)r'ojcct.in;.." part c wrarra in the clcctriral circuit, an ticctrically operated brake U1 so that win-n current is passed through the coil in thereon said brake Pi-t may be pressed against ihe tire oi one of the v hicle wheels in and the motion of said vehicle be thereby retarded, a retracting spring n being used to retain the brake 12 in its normal position. The hand wheel and the upper part of the shaft Ware rennivahlc so as to be interchangw able from one cuitrh device 4 to the other 5 on the motor car, a s uare or other shaped iroiection or socket icing Formed at the loner and. of the rod to fit over or within a rorrespomlingly shaped projection or socket on or in the lower end of the removable part of the shaft M. ()1' ii desired one switch device may be e111 )loved and mounted centrally in the car. s rafts and gearing or chain devices connectirur the rod for o crating the switrh with those at the ends 0 the car.

When vehicios of equestrian shape are em ployed the cs'piostrian portion is mounted upon suitable iraincwork c as shown by Figs. 7 and S and in this device the lever arm fand the switch arm ("I preferably operated by the parts q no noting the guiding reins and in this as-a.- as oil as in. the other arrangement of devices suitable dash-pots as that marked 1- in Fig. 7 are employed for the pu1$0ses well understood.

1 e preferably arrange a portion of the rails or track (as that marked a, Fig. 1) without conductors so that the current cannot be collected by any of the riders or users until a certain point is reached, and when they have finished their course the current is shut off.

On the users taking possession of the Vcl1icles these are situated on the part of the track which is or may be dead to the electric current, such as the part marked a of Fig. 1. The attendant then pushes the vehicle until the live part of the track is reached or the at tcndant may actuate a switch which will energize said otherwise dead art of the track in order to carry said vehic e on to said live part on which the user may then commence to turn his hand wheel 6 as above described. As he moves from zero against the sto -pin e" current is gradually increased unti the maximum is reached with the (llSCOIlCCI'Elllg results above described. Instead of using i such dead part of the track another 3 switch may be em loyed so that the attendant may switch t 1e current on or oil from the track as and whenever desired.

In case steam is the active power employed then the admission of steam to the engine may be controlled through adiusting devices which when drawn too far will release spring or other actuated mechanism to diminish or entirely cut oil. the admission of steam.

Where oii or ex losive engines are employed the control mg mechanism ma be arranged to advance or otherwise contro the time oi liring of the ex losive mixture or to operate any other suitable device so that the desired. element of skill or chance in its manipulation is brought about. Thus in Fig. 9 we have illustrated a device for altering or controlling the time of firing. The contact t with which the brush or contact 13 on the rotary holder it makes contact is carried by the lever t which corresponds with. the lever g in the arrangement above described, and is operatcd by the arm 1 (mounted on the rod t) and liberated and held as desired exactl in the same manner as is hereinbeforc descri ed.

lt will readily be understood that the arrangcment of switch devices as above described may be to some extent modified without departing from the nature of our invention rovided that the desired element of skill or c iance is brought into action.

Such being the nature and object of our said invention, what we claim is 1. In ap aratus of the class described, tracks, a vc iiclc, motor devices on said vehicle, an 0 relating device to be actuated b the user of the vehicle to control the motor t ereon, switch devices intervening between said operating device and the motor, catch and l lever parts for actuating said switch, devices 

